Feds provide $360,000 to study Route 110 traffic

The Department of Transportation has allocated $360,000 in grant funding to the Town of Babylon for a study to determine the best way to alleviate traffic congestion in the Route 110 corridor.

This funding comes a year after the Town of Babylon conducted its own study of the corridor responsible for 125,000 jobs. Babylon’s 2010 study concluded a bus rapid transit system from the Long Island Rail Road station in Amityville to the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station would be feasible to reduce traffic. The new study will build upon that and pave the way for implementation of congestion-removing measures, while again looking at bus rapid transit and light rail alternatives

The project was selected on a competitive basis through DOT’s fiscal year 2011 Alternatives Analysis Program.